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YOU KNOW YOU’RE A PARENT WHEN…

YOU KNOW YOU’RE A PARENT WHEN…

Unequivocally since becoming parents approximately 3.3 years ago, my Husband and I can candidly say that not one day is exactly like the other. Although repetition is touted to be “king” in raising a child the act of being a parent is continuously met with: laughs, wonderment, and challenges. Parenthood is a 24/7 conscious journey for the majority of us that decide to become parents. Eventually (or so we have been told) fraught by the hallmark of bags and dark eye circles, grey hairs, and dare I say wrinkles smiling back at you in the mirror. Beautiful but also frightful, enduring, and classic parenting mementos that go with the task of molding a new life.

I asked my fellow Multicultural kids bloggers to chime in on this article, humorously titled, you know you’re a parent when…? It is not just the simple realization that you have entered into motherhood or fatherhood but that your life and/or lifestyle have forever been altered. Here are our 37 ways you know you’re a parent when…

37 WAYS YOU KNOW YOU’RE A PARENT WHEN…

1.) You know you’re a parent when, you find yourself telling your child “Mommy/Daddy’s food is too spicy” so they don’t ask for any of it. With a silent sigh, you can now eat, and enjoy each morsel of your food with a greater sense of peace. Not a 100% sold on your food being spicy, your child attentively watches you as you both eat at the dinner table. Every now and again, to reinforce your foods spiciness you find yourself uttering “hot”; “spicy”; “I need to drink some more water!”
Nikita Gupta, Growing Up Gupta (www.growingupgupta.com).

5.) You know you’re a parent when, you find yourself alone in a quiet bathroom and worry some disaster is taking place elsewhere in the house.
Indra Roelants, Melting Pot International(www.meltingpotinternational@wordpress.com).

6.) You know you’re a parent when, you can’t remember the last time you only washed one load of laundry.
Lisa Ferland, Knocked up Abroad (http://knockedupabroad.eu/).

7.) You know you’re a parent when, you rush to help another parent struggling with a door and stroller (or an armful of toddler).

28.) You know you’re a parent when, you are constantly changing your child’s clothingbecause they: want to play dress up, the clothes are now itchy, they dropped something on the clothes, they don’t like how the clothes look etc.

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